Thermidorian Reaction

The Thermidorian Reaction occurred on 27 July 1794 when the Sans-culottes, National Guard, and moderate French politicians rose up against the National Convention government of Maximilien Robespierre in Paris, France during the French Revolution. Paul Barras led the National Guard in overthrowing Robespierre after the National Convention voted to execute Robespierre, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Francois Hanriot, Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot, and Augustin Robespierre, among other leaders of the radical Jacobin Club, and Philippe-Francois-Joseph Le Bas killed himself rather than be captured. Robespierre shot himself in the jaw in a failed suicide attempt, only for Charles-Andre Merda to claim that he shot Robespierre. Nevertheless, the Jacobin leaders were rounded up and guillotined the next day, ending the Reign of Terror and the radical state of the revolution.